📋 Tender Overview
PROJECT ID
110713
TOTAL FUNDING
CAD 1,188,500.00
IDRC OFFICER
Nafissatou Diop
PROJECT STATUS
Active
DURATION
36 months
Summary
ANeSA is a seven-year CAD29.9-million initiative funded by IDRC, the?Canadian Institutes of Health Research?and?Global Affairs Canada. Its primary objective is to support greater realization?of critical sexual and reproductive health and rights by underserved populations in Africa. ANeSA will generate and promote the use of high-quality evidence on sustainable, scalable interventions to transform service design and delivery, strengthen the development and implementation of policies and legal instruments, and build equitable and sustainable health systems. The five neglected thematic areas: family planning/contraceptive use, access to safe abortion care where legally permitted and post-abortion care, adolescent sexual and reproductive health and rights, prevention of sexual and gender-based violence and improving services to its victims, advocacy for sexual and reproductive health and rights.??
Implementation Research projects were selected through an externally-reviewed open call for proposals.??
This project addresses thematic areas of family planning/contraceptive use, access to safe abortion care where legally permitted and post-abortion care, and advocacy for sexual and reproductive health and rights.
Northern Uganda has a teenage pregnancy rate exceeding the national average. The project aims to improve access and use of sexual and reproductive health services by adolescents and other underserved population groups in Lira, Northern Uganda, through integrated Comprehensive Adolescent Friendly Family Planning-Post abortion Care (CAFFP-PAC) using a citizen science gender transformative approach. CAFFP-PAC is a package of evidence-based interventions incorporated in the Uganda National Adolescent Health Strategy and Adolescent Health Service Standards. However, the top-down approach overlooks contextual realities. This project involves adolescents, parents/caregivers, healthcare providers and community leaders in co-designing and implementing interventions to foster ownership and sustainability.
The project will be delivered in three phases: 1) Assess knowledge, attitudes, and practices & identify barriers and facilitators to family planning and post-abortion care services, emphasizing gender and intersectional inequities; 2) Co-design and implement CAFFP-PAC; and 3) Evaluate and disseminate lessons learned.
The project seeks to contribute to adolescents’ empowerment, reduced gender inequities, and reduced teenage pregnancy and unsafe abortions in Northern Uganda.
Principal Investigator: Assoc. Prof. Bernard Omech, Lira University. Box 1035, Ayere, Lira, Uganda. bomech@lirauni.ac.ug
Civil Society Organization co-Principal Investigator: Dr. Morris Chris Ongom (PhD), Chief Executive Officer, Global Forum For Development (GLOFORD), Uganda, P.O. Box 331062, Lira, Uganda. ceo@gloford.org
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